While I don't disagree with your statement, I think "reeling from Watergate" was a much bigger problem for Gerald Ford than for Jimmy Carter.

Looking back, I think Ford actually deserves far more credit than he's been given for helping the country to start trusting its leadership again... Which is a funny statement to make, since we now find ourselves in another era where we can't trust our leaders to act in our best interests.

I was just entering adulthood when Carter became president, so I have some recollection of that time... and I've got to disagree with your use of the word "unfortunately".

I voted for him back then; I greatly respect his work with Habitat for Humanity; and I think he's spot-on with his comments about this particular topic. That said, he was a terrible president. He was a very intelligent man, but had absolutely no idea how to be a leader nor how to get anything done.

The submitter is looking for a code-based solution to a sociological/psychological problem, and it's just not going to be effective.

The real solution is to educate and train your users so they don't fall prey to these sorts of attacks. I know a lot of IT people aren't comfortable dealing with people, and I know it takes quite a bit of time and doesn't look as snazzy on your résumé - but, really, it's the best long-term approach.

After the PATRIOT act passed, one of the first attempted invocations was by Texas state Republicans attempting to track down Democratic members of their state congress who'd left the state in order to prevent the state senate and house from reaching quorum (They had to leave the state because otherwise Texas law enforcement personnel could compel them forcibly to return to the capitol).

Politicians will always misuse broad authority if given half a chance to do so.

How does that actually improve the situation, since we now know (from the leaked secret order to Verizon) that these court orders can and will make demands such as "give us the entirety of your traffic for the next three months"?

And I'm not picking on Microsoft - this question stands to ALL of these US-based companies.

That is one of the big issues with devices that, by design, freely offer up information to you rather than wait for you to retrieve it.

No, Apache ignores DNT from IE 10 basically because the head of Apache works for Adobe, and Adobe doesn't like the idea of users not being tracked by default.

FWIW I use Firefox on a Mac, and I disable third-party cookies and run Ad-Block Plus.

People who constantly blame everything on climate change - even events like hurricanes, where there is no scientific consensus on the matter - are as big a problem as the "I don't believe in global warming" crowd.

"The Rouge Rogue" sounds like a supervillian from the 1950s!

Still bitter about that Mac user stealing your girlfriend, I see...

Hold down "Shift" when you re-launch Safari - that'll solve that problem.

What does the color of the web page have to do with anything?

When we post links in the discussion thread, Slashdot helpfully tags them with the domain - so we don't have to worry about clicking a pointless or abusive link.

It's time for Slashdot to follow this same practice with submissions and summaries. Start showing us the domain EVERY link goes to so we can choose not to waste our time on these blog spammers. I am getting tired of "stories" being submitted in an attempt to push up ad revenue.

A moose bit my sister once. No, really!

How many people actually make calls nowadays anyway? Other than old people.

I'm actually old from a Slashdotter perspective, but even for me - my last month usage report showed I used a grand total 20 minutes call time... and that was a higher than average month! I'm texting and/or using data most of the time when I've got my phone out.